[1][2][3] Its objectives include projects related to civil, construction, combat, structural, and military engineering and is commanded by Maj Gen Kamal Azfar.

[1] In the summer of 1966, a military organization was created by the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of the 805-kilometre long Karakoram Highway Road (commonly called KKH).

In November, 1988, The FWO built the Additional Link Road under the codename "Phase- lV Base Depot Khushab".

In October 1990, the FWO was assigned the task of constructing a uranium mining and milling facilityin Thola Dagar, Punjab.

The FWO alongside another military organization, the Special Development Works (SDW), (both of which fall under the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers (PACE)) were involved in the construction of tunnels at Chagai, Balochistan in the late 1980s in preparation for the Chagai-I nuclear test which was eventually carried out on 25 May 1998.